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H U T I C U L T U R E 



Dttceiubur lit), 1917 



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 Cantury and a Half 



HEWS 



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Inc. 1904 



World'* Larsaal 

 Manufacturora 



Standard, Azalaa, Bulb, OrchM, Fern. Han«<nK, Emboasad, Rosa, Carnation, Palm, Cyclaman, Cut Flow«r. 

 Spaclal Shapa* to Order. Chicken Founts, Plaeon Nasta, Bean Pota, Etc. 



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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



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CHICAGO. 

 James Bilek. of 1210 W. 18th street, 

 has left the florists' business for that 

 of fruit raising, having sold his store 

 to Jos. Stejskal and bought a furni in 

 Michigan. 



The service flag at A. Lange's already 

 has five stars and now three more are 

 to be added for Walter Schumacher, 

 shipping clerk. Chauncey Sanders and 

 Joseph Gaumotr. 



The Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation has added a case of ribbons to 

 their supply of cut flowers and plants 

 for the convenience of their customers 

 and their own profit. 



One good accomplished by the ac- 

 tion of the express companies in de- 

 claring their irresponsibility for delay, 

 was to cause the out-of-town orders to 

 come in earlier than usual. 



On Jan. 4th John G. Poehlmann will 

 leave for Louisville, Ky., where he will 

 enter the officers' training camp. He 

 is the son of the late John Poehlmann 

 and has the benefit of four years' ex- 

 perience at Culver Military Academy 



The absence of holly in quantity 

 this year makes a decided difference 

 in the appearance of the wholesale 

 market. That the chief reason for the 

 absence of this Christmas green Is the 

 lack of transportation facilities is evi- 

 denced by the fact that orders for a 

 few boxes were generally filled but 

 large quantities always failed to ar- 

 rive. 



Morris Grosberg, an employee of A. 

 L. Vaughan Co., is reported as doing 

 as well as can be expected at the 

 Frances Wlllard Hospital where he 

 was taken after being struck by a 

 street car, while crossing Wabash 

 avenue. The ligaments of his leg are 

 badly torn but the Xray shows no 

 bones broken. It is extremely fortu- 

 nate that he escaped with his life as 

 he was caught between two cars. 



A. N. Augspurger, recently of D. N. 

 Augspurger & Sons, of Peoria, 111., is 

 now making Chicago his headquarters 

 and traveling for the Geo. Wittbold 

 Co. In November the greenhouses of 

 D. N. Augspurger & Sons were frozen 

 and all the stock of young plants, in 

 the growing of which they specialized, 

 was lost. The property, consisting of 

 a range of houses and fifteen lots, was 

 placed in the hands of a receiver and 

 sold for a sum far below its value. 



A inininitii'i- n'pri'si'iiting si'vural 

 prominent wholesale houses was ap- 

 pointed by the Chicago Florists' Club 

 to take up the matter of better ship- 

 ping service with the express compa- 

 nies. Chairman Otto Freese called 

 upon the managers who assured him 

 that the florists' stock would have 

 preference over other consignments 

 during the holidays and be sent for- 

 ward with all possible despatch. So 

 far no reports of delay have reached 

 the trade here. 



ROCHESTER. N. Y. 



The store formerly run by Edwin C. 

 Kaelljer. Inc.. is now occupied by L/<3uis 

 Collatos, of the Aster Flower Store. 

 His brother, Nick, will manage the 

 .A.ster Store. 



Geo. T. Boucher has been very 

 active this week in the Red Cross 

 campaign and has been fortunate in 

 securing the alloted number of sub- 

 scriptions alloted to him. 



Fifteen of the Rochester florists are 

 away in training or on the battlefield 

 in Prance. The Rochester Florists' 

 Association has sent to each a large 

 box of cigars, cigarettes, pipes and to- 

 bacco and a box of candy as a Christ- 

 mas gift. The work of packing the 

 boxes was in the hands of Horace J. 

 Head, A. H. Seeker and H. B. Stringer. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The florists of Washington at a 

 meeting on December 19. in the rooms 

 of the District War Service Commis- 

 sion in the District Building, pledged 

 themselves to aid in war service work 

 here during the coming winter, and 

 moved the appointment of a com- 

 mittee by Harold Keats, director of 

 local war service work, which would 

 pass on all floral donations during the 

 season. Otto Bauer was appointed 

 chairman of the committee. The pur- 

 pose of the meeting was to bring 

 about more of a spirit of co-operation, 

 as the service workers and florists 

 will probably come into contact at 

 many of the entertainments planned 

 by the commission. 



Houston, Texas — Harold Martin, 

 night salesman for R. C. Kerr, has 

 joined the colors, leaving .Monday 

 night for San Antonio to enter the 

 Medical corps. This is the third to go 

 from the Houston club. 



Houston florists, under the leader- 

 ship of R. C. Kerr, chairman, have 

 formed a Red Cross Club. 



BOSTON. 

 David J. Quinn. florist, of Brooklino 

 has made an assignment to Ekl. Rogean 

 and George Noyes, a most unwelcome 

 Christmas token for all concerned. 



The trustees of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society have voted to 

 discontinue the awarding of money 

 prizes at all the exhibitions during 

 the year 1918 as a war economy meas- 

 ure. 



Secretary John Young and J. H. Pep- 

 per as his assistant were in Bostoa 

 last Saturday for a conference with 

 Chairman Henry Penn and Major 

 O'Keefe looking to an immediate fur- 

 therance of S. A. F. Publicity work 

 with especial reference to Valentine 

 Day business. 



M. H. Norton, although incapaci- 

 tated for active work for the past year 

 and a half, came to the city and super- 

 intended the decoration of the chancel 

 of Emanuel Church on December 24, a 

 work which he has done at Christmas 

 and Easter each year consecutively 

 for almost half a century. 



An announcement on the blackboard 

 at the Boston Flower fi^xchange gives 

 the names of forty-eight young men 

 associated with the business of the 

 I'^xchange who are now in the service 

 of their country, about one-third of the 

 number being already in France. 



W. C. Gloeckner of Albany in his lit- 

 tle publication. "The Blue Flower," 

 states that President M. C. Brush of 

 the Boston Elevated, is seldom seen 

 wilhout a small rose in his buttonhole. 

 .\ rose is placed on his desk every 

 morning by his assistant. Bert Potter, 

 a man who loves flowers almost as 

 much as mothers love their own chil- 

 dren. 



A gold medal was awarded by the 

 .Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 on December 22. to John L. Smith, 

 superintendent for A. W. Preston at 

 Swampscott. Mass., for a remarkable 

 Brasso-Cattleya (C. Enid x Bra.ssavola 

 Digbyana). which .Mr. Smith exhibited 

 '111 that day at Horticultural Hall. 

 The plant carries one flower and two 

 buds. The flower is eight inches 

 across and the labellum is four inches 

 deep, of a lighter tone, with chocolate- 

 colored markings and a suggestion of 

 sulphur at the front of the lii). The 

 large staminode is of clear, cream 

 white and the sepals are the same tone 

 as the beautifully ruffled petals. 



